Re: Re: I feel a draft coming (was Re: CNN poll...) (fwd)
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Quoting "Aaron S. Hawley" <[email protected]>: > [thoughts about a draft, perpetual war, and the only good argument I've > heard for why this isn't another Vietnam (hint: because it's worse)] > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: M. Junaid Alam <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:10:21 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Marxism] I feel a draft coming (was Re: CNN poll...) > > "I don't think anything about this is at all improbable. And - bottom > line - what else are they going to do? The other methods they have > tried - use of mercenaries, recruitment of Iraqi soldiers and police > under their control, the "coalition of the willing", etc. - are all > collapsing." > === > > Tactically the anti-war movement can use talk of the draft to raise > political awareness to some degree. But I don't see a general draft is > in the immediate offing. > > First: the Vietnam draft had college-exemption, right? So who is going > to be doing all the fighting this time if college kids are exempt from > the draft now? Almost all kids go to some kind of college these days. > There won't be exemptions for college kids. Things are different now. We discussed the current rules a while ago (I'm too lazy to pull up pipermail, but I believe Jessie posted something from the NLG). Currently, a student can only have his deferment pushed back until the end of the semester; a senior can postpone until the end of the year. There is also still the possibility that Fritz Hollings' Universal Service Act will make it back into Congress. While it is an attempt to make everyone, male or female, perform 2 years of service regardless of station, the President is free to define an alternative means of term fulfillment, which privileged children will certainly seek out. Millions more bodies for the government to play with, any way you look at it. -x _______________________________________________ heads mailing list [email protected] http://ballistichelmet.org/mailman/listinfo/heads/ http://ballistichelmet.org/donate/